Mr. president, delegates,
the beginning of modern civilization Generations have witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of wars But the marriage supper of the lamb and the bridegroom onto his bride Then shall the earth's know the true expression of one love mother earth shall honeymoon in peace. Forever eliminating the aspirations, lust and anguish of and rumors of wars, Selah!
See it deh know the going up in vapors And propaganda inna the Sunday papers not even coulda save you with him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And Babylon a gamble the youth dem life racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a dem head with razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be 'cause Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Can we do it? we can do it, we do it!
Boom! Tell dem fe uh mi out when the world government inna falling out Only few men survive out Run him colleagues dem sprawling out, nearly dead! Medic haul him out And give him two fi stall him out, deh pon base! Can't get no calling out when him hear from the last week Him mistress a new shoes Wife can't get no and lately she starting to doubt, she still searching! And the dem bawling out Working hard not to let it all out Well it's not safe to go walk A slaughterhouse from Baghdad to house She start to sometime she want a spouse She start go out, start a darker stout, guns come out! Working people run out Keep a show last week and no one come out, come out! Mi gas just run out, bombo clatt! The scotch just run out, weed run out! Yuh senses must dumb out, mi a pound round a back deh a gwan sun out Nah come out! the chalice bun out, Nah come out! 'Til the bun out, a war!
Zimbabwe to wall Blazin' like a ball, loose ball, dat no work, in war Sleeping, dat no work..in war Can't jheri curl, in war No and pearl, in war drink weh a serve, in bar Gas wi up yuh nerves, in war wi blood up yuh shirt, in war Can't go up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war Can't go release sperms, in war Stamina preserve, in war Fire burn, in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red!
If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it, you will die. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you of good for nothings If you cannot do what other men done What other nations have done, what other races done you yourself shall die.
See it deh know the innocent going up in And propaganda inna the Sunday papers not even superman save you with him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And a gamble the youth dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be 'cause Inna dem tryin' to save, saviors
Hey, now wi fore sacrifice enough Dem blood sweat and tears run syrup Any day a revolution might erupt, and the sky's over Kingston up For the new generation rising up, of now a days weh dem sighting up And through reasoning dem up, for the sign and the sign is us, Searching for the truth all you is us, for the troops still behind is us, The we recruit and we come from the root We build like roach building Weh can't done, Rastafari' design me tuff If a the for freedom sign me up Cause you can't blind me up Soldiers and dem wising up, realizing they're no more right than us Realizing there's no use us their opening their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us So we nah tek talk nor up the word temper tantrum boiling up, And who the shots and nah bust none Controlling the mind of the young, bring
Bear famine, no nah fall from London to Dadeland mall All the son of the virgin bawl, of the church in war and researching war Practice and war and dem learning war Instigating and war Always keep in war man will jump out a swerving car Now bees and in war And the freaks and in war And the straight and in war and reverse in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red
If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it, you will die. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for If you cannot do what men have done other nations have done, what other races have done Then you shall die.